Damien Chazelle Quotes
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
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Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
